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Medical school employees can test their fitness and learn about smoking cessation at the Health Happening wellness fair Oct. 28.

The Genome Center’s new data facility has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

The annual Dean’s Update to the School of Medicine will be Oct. 29 from 2-3 p.m., and Nov. 4 from 10-11 a.m. in Connor Auditorium.

Douglass C. North, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, was fielding calls from around the world after this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics were announced.

Photo by Robert BostonRehan Hasan, a third-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy, sings songs he wrote about relationships at the student coffeehouse.

M. Kenton King, M.D., former dean of the School of Medicine, died Oct. 15, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.

Join Milton Ochieng, a medical resident at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine, and his brother Fred, a medical student at Vanderbilt, at the Missouri Botanical Garden on Tues., Nov. 3, for the St. Louis premier of Sons of Lwala. The documentary film details how the Ochieng brothers built a legacy to their father—the first medical clinic in Lwala, Kenya.

KingM. Kenton King dean of the Washington University School of Medicine for nearly 25 years, died Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.

M. Kenton King, M.D., dean of the Washington University School of Medicine for nearly 25 years, died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.

Poet Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, has been selected — for the third time — as a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Phillips was nominated in 2009 for his 10th collection of poetry, “Speak Low,” published this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.